Shrewd vs Acid - What's the difference?
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showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters
artful, tricky or cunning
streetwise
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knowledgeable
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, year=2011
, date=November 10
, author=Jeremy Wilson
, title=tEngland Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report
, work=Telegraph
(archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.
* 1599 ,
Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
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(lb) Sour-tempered.
*(Anthony Trollope) (1815-1882)
*:He was stern and his face as acid as ever.
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*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy […] distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its savour.
Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
(lb) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
A sour substance.
(chemistry) Any of several classes of compound having the following properties:-
# Any of a class of water-soluble compounds, having sour taste, that turn blue litmus red, and react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and with bases to form salts.
# Any compound that easily donates protons; a
# Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid
(slang) lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
Shrewd is a related term of acid.
As adjectives the difference between shrewd and acid
is that shrewd is showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters while acid is acid; sour; tart (having a sharp taste such as that of vinegar or a lemon).As a noun acid is
acid (a food with a sharp taste).shrewd
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- LEONATO. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.